Online Course Listings with Descriptions

The online courses being developed and their descriptions are listed below. Many of these courses are not on the list of courses currently offered by U.T. Permian Basin. However, as part of the collaborative program, you will be able to take any of the following courses for your master's degree.

Students will investigate and apply administrative theories related to the administration of sport and physical education programs. Additionally, students will establish their program philosophy, perform budgeting and expenditure of funds assignments, and examine legal issues associated with the administration of sport and physical education programs.

Analysis of Teaching and Coaching Behavior

Students will survey a variety of instructional models available to teachers and coaches. They will learn to match the variety of behavioral assessment tools to the instructional model and the task-at-hand. They will apply behavioral assessment tools in learning to observe, describe, code, and analyze the behaviors that they are observing in physical education students, teachers, student athletes, coaches, spectators, or officials of an activity.

Applied Biomechanics

Students will investigate the application of biomechanical principles to human motor skill performance in sport and exercise settings. Emphasis will be placed on the teaching and learning of motor skills, characteristics of skilled performance, and safety-related considerations.

Applied Sport Psychology

Students will develop an array of mental training techniques that have been used successfully by athletes and coaches to improve sport performance. How to use each technique as an athlete and teach it as a coach will be the primary objectives. This course takes an educational approach toward performance enhancement, not a clinical one. The mental training techniques include imagery, arousal regulation, somatic and cognitive stress management, concentration and attention control, positive self-talk, and goal setting.

Contemporary Issues in Physical Education and Sport

This course engages students in an analysis of contemporary controversial problems related to physical education and sport. Students will learn general principles and procedures related to rational development and evaluation of viewpoints, and will learn to apply these principles and procedures to specific controversies relevant to the professional interests and goals of the students in the class.

Curricular Innovations

Students will examine trends and issues to consider in developing appropriate curriculum in Physical Education. Course content includes sample program innovations designed to provide direction to physical educators taking roles of leadership in implementing and assessing curriculum. As individuals or as members of a small group, students will design curriculum to be implemented in their own schools.

This course provides a study of physical activity in early childhood and its influence on child development to include types of physical activity and its relationship to emotions, health, social and physical growth and development.

Ethics in Health and Kinesiology

Students will examine ethical considerations encountered in professional areas related to health, exercise and sport. The students will learn to develop and evaluate ethical viewpoints based on theory and fundamental principles.

Exercise Physiology

This course provides a comprehensive survey of exercise physiology, examining muscular, metabolic, and cardio-respiratory adaptations to acute and chronic exercise. Emphasis is on the major concepts in terms of normal responses to exercise.

Exercise Psychology

Students will study the theoretical models and research related to the determinates of exercise adoption and adherence. Research related to the effects of exercise on mental health is also reviewed. Students are encouraged to apply their study of theory and research to the design of wellness, fitness, and health promotion programs in various settings of professional interest - educational, corporate, and commercial.

History and Philosophy

Students will examine the historical development of kinesiology, physical education and sport from primitive to modern day times. Emphasis is placed on the role sport and physical education plays as part of the total educational system and how educational philosophy influences modern sport and physical education. Major philosophies will be investigated and applied to assist the student in developing her or his individual philosophy.

Introduction to Statistics

This course is designed for graduate students who require a basic understanding of statistics but have not previously had a statistics course. The course covers basic descriptive statistics, elementary probability, one- and two-population mean and variance comparisons, and an introduction to ANOVA, simple linear regression, and correlation. Graduate standing and an undergraduate course in mathematics at the level of college algebra or higher are assumed.

This course is specifically designed to expand the roles and responsibilities of the teacher/coach in the current and the future inclusion settings. Students will analyze and evaluate issues, trends
and research findings pertinent to adapted physical activity for students with disabilities.

Motor Learning and Control

Current theories and concepts involved in the processes of motor skill acquisition and performance from a behavioral perspective. Major topics include the methodology of studying motor performance, information processing, sensory and central contributions to motor control, coordination, individual differences, conditions of practice, feedback, retention and transfer and the learning process. Practical application of principles is emphasized.

Nutrition, Health, and Disease

Study of basic nutrients, nutritional needs at various stages of life, and therapeutic diets for selected disease states. This course or an equivalent is a prerequisite for KINO 6382, Sports Nutrition.

Research Methods

The students will explore various types of research used in kinesiology. The students will then develop a research question, formulate methodology and related statistical and measurement concepts, and write a research report.

Sport and Society

In this course, a critical examination of sport will be made. Students will examine opposing points of view related to the role of sport in various American institutions (political, economic, educational, religious) and by diverse sociocultural groups within these institutions. The impact of sport upon individuals and society will also be scrutinized (racism, sexism, elitism).

Sport Nutrition

Study of nutrition as it relates to optimal training and performance of sports activities. Prerequisite: KINO 6380 Nutrition, Health, and Disease or equivalent graduate or upper-division undergraduate general nutrition course.

Sport Psychology

Students will investigate psychological and social-psychological theories and current research pertaining to the study of sport and physical activity. Topics covered will include personality, anxiety, arousal, causal attribution, motivation, attention, self-confidence, aggression, cohesion, audience effects, and leadership.

Training and Conditioning Methods

This course involves the study of training and conditioning methods used to improve and sustain athletic performance. Students will study methods and programs used with athletes to develop aerobic endurance, muscular strength, and anaerobic power, as well as the underlying physiological bases of the training effects.

The U. S. Health System Origins and Functions

In this course students will better understand the extremely complex and rapidly changing U.S. health system. Though it is important for students to appreciate the value of understanding our current healthcare system, healthcare systems are not holy and should be viewed with a degree of scholarly irreverence and skepticism. Students will be expected to cultivate a habit of demanding evidence as they peer into our diversified institutions and the minds of Americans who have created such perplexing systems for doing things.

Women and Sport

This course explores problems, patterns and processes associated with the sport involvement of women in American culture. Topics include the history of women's participation in sport, social stereotypes of sportswomen, institutional influences on the development of women's sport choices and ideals, and women's sport performance capabilities. Current issues in sport for women will be explored. This section of the course will vary each semester, as issues change.